Improvement in sizing compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS GORRELL, OF WARREN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO GEORGE J.HAMPSON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN SIZING COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,147, dated April22, 1873; application filed April 12, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs GORRELL, of Warren, in the county of Bristoland State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain Oompound calledSizing, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of compounds used for sizing yarnsprevious to their being woven and it consists in a composition formed bymixing together tallow, salt, soap, bees-wax,isin glass, molasses, andflour, in substantially the following proportions:

For one hundred (100) pounds of the com position, ten (10) pounds oftallow; ten (10) pounds of salt ten (10) pounds of soap; molasses, four(4) pounds; beeswax, one (1) pound; isinglass, one (1) pound; andsixty-four (64) pounds of flour; to which a sufficient amount of wateris to be added to form the whole into a paste of any desiredconsistency.

In applying this sizing to yarns, take of the composition abovedescribed twenty (20) pounds, and mix it with one hundred (100) poundsof starch, properly saturate the whole, and place it in the sizing-box,through which the yarn is passed; and it will be found to have given toit a smooth, even surface, thus preparing it for weaving to betteradvantage than any sizing with which I am acquainted.

THOMAS i GORRELL.

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Witnesses: I

WILMER BRADFORD, D. P. HOLLOWAY.

